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GW170817

The arXiv received 67 preprints as part of today’s announcement of the discovery by the LIGO/Virgo Collaboration of the coalescence of a binary neutron star in NGC4993, accompanied by a short Gamma Ray Burst.

The preprints were submitted over a period of several days and were held to be released together as a contiguous block on astro-ph and gr-qc. Two of the preprints were held back because of technical issues leaving a batch of 65 to be released. The plan to make the release a contiguous block of arXiv IDs failed for technical reasons, our admins worked late to diagnose the source of the problem, which boiled down to a flaw in the script setting up the block, it assumed implicitly that any such block of preprints would be submitted on the same day…

The list of LVC and EM collaboration preprints we were informed about is below, there are other manuscripts discussing the event, those are from independent researchers generally unaffiliated with the collaboration:

The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/VIRGO GW170817. VI. Radio Constraints on a Relativistic Jet and Predictions for Late-Time Emission from the Kilonova Ejecta: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.05457

The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/VIRGO GW170817. VII. Properties of the Host Galaxy and Constraints on the Merger Timescale:https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.05458